He said the season had been challenging for other crops as well not just potatoes, but the main concern for growers was just how bad harvests were going to be.
Here in Mississippi, another thing that's happened is that they've taken fryers out of the school and put in more ovens, right? (Applause.) And just imagine, just because of that, in Starkville, two schools in that area, they've cut out about 3 million calories -- 3 million calories -- just by not having fried potatoes.
Variations may be OK. Brussels sprouts that are roasted, not boiled, sweet potatoes mashed with apples or pears.
But dismissing it as a problem of couch potatoes is not especially helpful to the millions who have it.
Harvesting normally begins in April, but Mr Church said he thought most potatoes would not now be lifted until May.
The message that Business in the Community wants to spread is that a fit and healthy workforce is a productive work force and employers in all sectors must play their part in preventing not only couch but office potatoes.
The man who restored the ruined gardens of Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire (soil neutral, altitude 250ft, annual rainfall 27in) to their original state in the 17th century, when Charles II knew the place, did not seem the sort of expert you would ask about growing potatoes.
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But CAFTA's strictures do not apply to several sensitive crops, such as white corn and Costa Rican potatoes and onions.
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The technician discovered that farmers were not only washing their clothes in the washing machines they were also washing potatoes, which clogged the water pipes.
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The 1994 ruling of its Court of Justice that Union countries must not buy perishable goods from Turkish Cyprus has halved the area's production of potatoes and citrus fruit.
Citing cases involving auto wrecks, tainted potatoes and improperly fumigated produce, the court said companies have a duty to warn not just consumers of their products, but just about anybody who comes in contact with them.
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Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.
An increase in traditional freight-train traffic was slowing up rail service, so potatoes that were top-grade when they were loaded in Idaho were mashed--and not by design--when they arrived in Philadelphia.
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